On the occasion of her first solo exhibition at Nicaise, Louise Bescond is the subject of a beautiful portrait in the magazine Art & Métiers du Livre. Extract:

« In the catalog, now exhausted, published for the occasion by Nicaise, Marie-Minssieux Chamonard, curator of the Rare Books Reserve of the National Library of France, signed a great chapeau. She outlines a clever description of her first bindings: Louise Bescond sought to control erosion of leather, disfigure, to mistreat him. She had the idea, with the complicity of a friend engraver at La Cambre, to apply on vegetable tanned calf a zinc plate engraved etching and aquatint, a plate whose originality is that it is deeply bitten with acid – more than is usually admitted to practice in engraving. All her first bindings are calves stamped by this process, often monochrome, with muted colors, black, gray, brown, putty, the moving shadow, the uneven relief, grainy and rough to the touch. A sumptuous set, with sobriety and an extreme elegance, evoking in turn corrosion sculptures by Richard Serra, the roughness of the compositions of Dubuffet and Tapies, and we are asked to « touch », according to Marcel Duchamp’s famous injunction of 1947. «